Culture Resource Management Firms And Their Responsibilities With Internal Collections

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The task of curation collections recovered resulting from CRM projects can often be a costly and time-consuming endeavor. For these reasons, and along with others, many CRM firms become their own repositories, often with numerous forgotten about boxes in storage spaces or basements. This study assessed and prepared for curation the orphaned collections held by Gray & Pape, Inc. This project includes an internal review into the ethics and responsibilities CRM firms hold within their own storing and preparing processes for collections held within their facilities. Throughout this research, multiple firms will be offered a survey to show an anonymous configuration of how these corporations view and actively handle responsibilities towards their internal collections. This qualitative data along with the quantitative values presented from Gray & Pape’s internal project will lead to valuable discussion on the necessary internal collections work that needs to be done within CRM firms.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)

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